Logos Bible Software 4
An experiment in user-ranking of feature priorities for Logos 4.
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Rework notes function - in one or multiple phases
Note attachment
• allow a note to be attached to multiple passages - with the note icon appearing on each passage
• allow all links - to other notes, PDF's mp3's, PowerPoint's, web, mind maps, sentence diagrams, vocabulary lists
• permit notes to be attached to a lemma, liturgical date, search string...
• allow default note icon color to be set at the file level; permit more colors (at least match L3)
• allow user selection of highlight style to indicate attached note/selected text - include suppressing highlighting or show only on mouse over
• improve input window (more like… more945 votes -
Make an intelligent flash card program for vocab & Bible verse memorization.
Once vocab lists are reintroduced, make it intelligently able to quiz the users, learning what words (Verses) the user knows and which ones he/she doesn't. Model it after supermemo.
678 votesstarted ·
Bob Pritchett
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A future release of Logos (sorry, no date available) will have support for full-featured word and vocabulary lists.
Flash card functionality is already underway. We anticipate having it on the desktop, supporting printing of paper flashcards to perforated paper stock, and plan (but have not yet started coding) mobile flashcard applications for drilling on your phone.
We are using an established memorization method with an algorithm for smartly rotating and reviewing cards.
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Sermon File Add-In
Please get the Sermon File Add-In running for Logos 4
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Copy from anywhere (Guides, Search Results, Resource Info panel)
Add the ability to select and copy text from all the places we used to be able to in L3: Passage/Exegetical Guides, Bible Word Study, Search Results, and Resource info panels.
546 votes -
Save/update Layout without needing to remember its name / Name of layout in title bar
Currently there is no way to know which layout is currently loaded. It would be good to have the name of the currently loaded layout displayed in the title bar.
Also, the way L4 is updating layouts is not intuitive enough. You have to remember which layout you have opened before you can update it.
It would be good to have an option in the layout menu to save/update the current layout without needing to remember its name.
Further info:
http://community.logos.com/forums/t/15508.aspx542 votes -
Ability to filter the library by collections
Right now the purpose of the collections is only to search within the resources of the collections.
It would be helpful to have the collections also available in the library so that we can also find resources by collections.
Further explanation:
http://community.logos.com/forums/t/15946.aspx531 votes -
Bring back Topic Search and Fuzzy Search
Bring back Logos 3's Topic Browser and Fuzzy Search capabilities
484 votesplanned ·
Bob Pritchett
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An upcoming release of Logos will have new support for topics (and specifically the terms in the Logos Controlled Vocabulary) throughout the software.
We anticipate bringing back fuzzy search as well.
I’m sorry, but no date is available yet.
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Add prayer list on iphone / ipad / ipod
This would be really useful on the go, since that is when you tend to run into people asking you to pray for something. It could be a simple mobile prayer list that syncs with the desktop or something more complicated like the ability to sync any of your prayer lists with the ipod.
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Logos 4 Mac Enhancements
Please add full screen button for OS X Lion along with multi-finger gesturing for Magic Mouse, Magic TrackPad, and MacBook track pads on all supported Mac OS X versions.
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introduce option to export resources to an e-reader (e.g. the Kindle), ideally with functional notes
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Provide management of mytags
Please provide some way to manage mytags, preferably with ability to remove or rename 'specific' tags, and not simply 'delete all tags'. If resources have multiple tags, the only way to manage them is either with a lot of time and patience going through each one, or to create new mytags and leave lots of redundant ones lying around.
287 votes -
Import/Export notes to/from Evernote.
It would be nice if Logos (both PC and iPad/iPhone/iPod versions) could import/export notes to/from Evernote. If possible the format should be compatible with OliveTree's BibleReader so the notes can be portable between applications.
251 votes -
Complete the set of Precept symbols
I use the Inductive Bible Study Method quite often - it is not the only method I use because it is not the only method :-). The highlighting feature in Logos 4 has a precept palate, but it only has part of the symbols available. Does anyone know if Logos is going to add the rest of the symbols? I spoke to the good people at Precept and they said they were all for it, but Logos had to actually do it.
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iphone / ipad / ipod - icon for "download all available resources"
It is a bit time consuming to browse the iphone library and pick out the resources for "offline reading" individually. I would appreciate the possibility to download all available resources; especially for the ipad coming up very soon....
218 votesplanned ·
AdminBradley Grainger
(Admin, Logos Bible Software)
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216 votesunder review ·
Bob Pritchett
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We are unlikely to be able to develop for Windows Phone 7 until Microsoft adds support for other programming languages. While we use and like C#, much of our core engine is in C++, and we don’t have the resources to port it all for this platform.
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A Visual Bookshelf feature like Mark Barnes's cool web-based one, only even better!
See this thread http://community.logos.com/forums/t/15170.aspx
And take into account some of the suggestions for improvements posted later on the thread, such as the ability to drag to reorder books, integrate flags for reading plans that are behind, etc.189 votes -
Stem/Cognate Search
I would like the ability to search for the cognates of a Hebrew tri-consonantal root or a Greek stem. Currently, one must manually look up all the cognates of a word and run multiple searches or construct a search with a wildcard.
See http://community.logos.com/forums/t/16050.aspx for more discussion and details.
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Organize files popup by file type, alphabet and recently used
The file tab provides a list of all user-generated file types in the order of most recently used to last used. As the number of files increases this becomes more and more awkward. Please arrange it so that the last 3 files used displays at the top. Below that, based on a user selected file type, display the files in alphabetical order.
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PDF, docx files
Over the years in seminary, I have downloaded and collected many pdf and docx files. I would like to see Logos having the ability to search these files, make cross-reference, and make notes. If this cannot be done, another alternative is that Logos provides an internal program that would convert these files to native logos format.
150 votesPersonal Book Builder can convert docx files to Logos books. We do not plan to implement PDF import/conversion.
Update: We still do not plan to implement PDF import, but I’m reopening this for user feedback, as requested.
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Improve community pricing program
I think logos should start a public domain group. I was looking on finding the best way to get public domain books. I came across a website that charges $100.00 membership fee and you can download as many public domain books as you want. These books come in a variety of formats, so you can put them into the pbb.
I would be really cool if logos started a similar group. With enough members, the membership fee can fund the production of these public domain books. This would also bring in the "low end" customers seeing as they can get… more
150 votes